To assess thyroid function, clinicians typically determine blood levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroxine (T4) and do not directly measure triiodothyronine (T3). However, findings ...

An elevated threshold for TSH suppression has been previously described in children during the first months of replacement therapy. We studied 15 children, diagnosed by neonatal CH screening during ...

Thyroid blood tests help figure out how well your thyroid gland is working. TSH helps the thyroid gland know when to make more thyroid hormones. Free T4 is the type of hormone that becomes active when ...

CHICAGO — Levothyroxine (LT4) monotherapy remains the standard treatment for hypothyroidism, although a subset of patients continue to have hypothyroidism despite normal thyroid-stimulating hormone ...

Charlottesville, VA (March 12, 2013). In a study of 90 patients undergoing surgery for brain tumor, researchers in Lithuania (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences) and the United States ...

With survival of multiple myeloma ranging from less than 1 month to over 10 years, the researchers highlighted the importance of risk stratification to quickly identify patients who are high risk with ...

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